Improvement in metallic horse-collars



J. 0, 81mm. Metallio Horse-Oollars.

Patented May 21,1878.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JESSE 0. SMITH, OF OENTERVILLE, IOWA.

IMP ROVEM ENT IN METALLIC HORSE-COLLARS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent 0. 203,950, dated May 21, 1878 application filed November 26, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

ful Improvement in Metallic Horse-Collars, of

which the following is a specification:

Figure 1 is a front view of my improved collar, parts being broken away to show the construction. Fig. 2 is a front view'of the same, showing the hames in place. Fig. 3 is a detail cross-section taken through the broken line a: at, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail longitudinal section of the same, taken through the line is a vertical sectional view of a modification of my invention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

The object of this invention is to furnish an improved horse-collar, which shall be neat and durable, will heal all scalds, galls, bruises, sores, &c., upon the horses neck and shoulders, and may be readily adjusted to the thickness of the horses neck as he increases or decreases in flesh.

Theinvention consists in a horse-collar made of sheet-zinc, pressed into shape, and strengthened with malleable-iron stays, so formed as to also serve as a seat for the hames, as hereinafter fully described.

The collar is made in two parts, A, which are pressed into shape out of heavy sheet-zinc, and are strengthened by malleable-iron stays B, which are riveted or otherwise secured to the upwardly-curved outer and inner parts of the collar A. The stays B also serve as seats for the hames G, and have forwardly-project ing arms formed upon their inner parts for the inner sides of the hames O to bear against.

To the lower end of one of the parts A of the collar is attached a sole-leather fender, D, to receive the end of the other part A, where it is secured in place by a hasp, E, attached to one 'of said parts, and which hooks over a hook, F, attached to the other part. The hasp E has two or more holes formed in it to receive the hook F, to enable the collar to be widened or narrowed, as may be desired. The upper ends of the parts A of the collar are connected by a leather strap, G, which passes through keepers attached to the U-plate H. The U-plate H is so formed. as tofit and rest port the collar and hames. The front and. rear edges of the plate H are curved upward, to prevent them from chafing the horse as he moves his neck. The hames C are connected at their upper and lower ends, and are secured in place upon the collar A by straps I, \in the usual way.

In the modification of my invention shown in Fig. 5 a perforated metallic cap, K, is placed over the U-plate, and covers about two-thirds of it. Said perforated cap is raised at. its ends by means of leather skirts L, which pass down below the U-plate, and are secured to the latter by the rivets which also serve to retain the perforated cap and keepers M or necessary ventilation, and the will prevent wear at the connecthe U-plate and the collar-so:-

will give the leather skirts tion between tions.

The parts A are further strengthened by straps riveted to the inside of the inner edge, and on the outside of the outer edge they'a e secured by the rivets passing through the hamestays.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

into shape and strengthened by malleable-iron stays B, so formed as to also serve as a seat for the hames O, substantially as herein shown and described.

JESSE 0. SMITH. Witnesses J. J. TrB'BITs, H. 0. SMITH.

upon the back of the horses neck and sup-- the connecting-strap-G. The perforated cap Ahorse-collar, A, made of sheet-zinc, pressed 

